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I've been using tinc for quite while. How does it compare to Wireguard?

One Tinc advantage is that it can run on an Openwrt router.

Because the person with dementia does not have a stable level of cognition. It changes continuously. The article mentions this. At higher levels of cognition they will know whatever the simulation is false and it will upset them.

Spend some time with dementia patients and you'll quickly realize the issue.

Any VR would have to be able to determine current cognitive ability to not cause as much frustration and harm as relief.

It is no worse than email is now. In fact, it's better because only allowed clients can read messages authorized for them.

Without NN won't ranking pages by "page speed" simply enhance the benefits of purchasing "fast lanes" near end points (on previously dumb pipes ;-) to those willing to do so?

I agree. EquiFax deserves complete dissolution as a corporate entity. Much like Arthur Anderson dissolved itself after being caught as the approving auditor in the Enron scam.

Corporations and executives as well as stockholders must suffer. For executives there must be clear disincentives to bad management. Stockholders must learn to NOT invest in unethical companies. And employees need to learn that working for poorly run companies is a poor career choice.

Otherwise, these events will continue to occur and everyone on the inside will glad hand each other about how they got away with it.

Z-wave and encrypted ZigBee controlled products work pretty well for in-home automation. Communication is encrypted between devices.

The problem can be the Z-wave/ZigBee controller which may very well require Internet and Cloud access to "phone home."

I avoid using IoT devices that I can't re-program or if nothing is available except some proprietary/cloud driven device I isolate them into their own little network space, so they can't attack the rest of the network or "phone home" unless I let them. Sometimes, that isn't possible and that's when 30 day return privileges come in real handy.

The ability to trace the packets coming off of most IoT devices is fascinating and sometimes scary. A lot of devices are like the recent OnePlus smartphones that record and send most everything to their "true master" the manufacturer of the device. At least, with a Oneplus you can fix that, by reflashing the phone.... which is not true of most IoT devices being sold today.

Have you noticed that BestBuy seems to only sell IoT devices that will "phone home?"

Roku has made all the difference for many. It has most every streaming option including Amazon who refuses to work on Chromecast.

It's easy compared to most other Internet Video Stream Receivers by offering a WiFi remote (not your phone) and a TV/Cable channel metaphor UI rather than a web metaphor UI.

It works really well for the non-technical and older people.

Actually, they know their customer needs and wants. Their advertising and "in network" offers are brimming with all the appropriate wording and promises. They just don't provide good support or deal honestly so customers are rightfully are fed up, but most don't know there are any options.

If they were not local regional monopolies they'd be losing customers a lot faster than they are now.

The faster we can make cable companies "dumb pipes" the better off we will all be... except if you are a Cable company exec or shareholder.

BTW, if you are an HOA board member make sure you maximize your "door fees" when they come up for re-negotiation. "Door fees" are what a cable company pays the HOA for access to living units within the HOA. "Door fees" also prevent the HOA from letting any other Cable company have the same access for the term of the contract. Since you can't break the monopoly, you can at least lower the regular assessments for your HOA members with Cable company cash.

Cable companies keep tightening the screws on Cable TV customers who in many cases will remain cable subscribers for broadband internet only..... But only because there are no other options in their area.

Also Cable Companies continue to encrypt local channels that used to be on unencrypted clear QAM channels. So that HDTV or DVR that has a digital tuner that you purchased can't get a signal without adding yet another cable box (or cablecard) to your monthly bill for each and every device.

Then customers decide to try an Over-The-Air (OTA) antenna and realize that the Cable Co's have been degrading their local channels signal for years in favor of pay channels and shopping channels.

Next, a customer may get a Roku or Chromecast and realize the choice greater and quality better streaming from the Internet than via local cable and the customer has much better control over the costs.

Also "cord cutters" are making a lot of noise on social networks about what they are doing and how well it works. Couple that with how much "love" most people have for their cable company and well decline should be inevitable as long as the alternatives work and they do.

Rats! They didn't provide the old mouse pad with buttons above and below. The "click anywhere" mouse pads are a pain. And who wants to be stuck with only a iCore 7U processor?

If space utilization is the issue then use a 2.5mm jack. Like Palm (before HP) did over 10 years ago. Waterproofing a jack is not any harder than doing it for USB.

Eliminating the jack entirely just means I'll be looking elsewhere for my next phone and I've bought a lot of Google phones.

Bluetooth dropouts and interference are a regular occurrence. And dongles are not necessary unless the phone makers is just trying to make more money by removing existing functionality from the base device.

In Portland Oregon many ADUs are converted unattached garages, finished attics, finished basements and more rarely converted garden sheds. Particularly, in the areas where much of the closer to city center housing stock is pre-World War 2 and near good public transit.

ADUs have to meet current building and fire codes. Though there is a loophole where an on-site resident owner may do their own construction without permits.

ADU construction along with rental housing starts is also slowing due to recent city legislation and the threat of rent control which has been illegal in the entire state of Oregon since the 1980s. And the city of Portland via new regulation has already added friction and increased costs in their rental market exacerbating their "rental housing crisis" except for those renters already in existing rentals.

ADUs were popular additions on family occupied and/or owned Portland properties until the recent regulatory changes and rent control threat. Now there is added known risk and uncertainty.

Existing stakeholders see more traffic, less parking, more noise and disturbance. Higher density housing generally creates more conflicts among residents.

So existing residents already in place resist more residents arriving in the same area. Which is understandable, since ADUs do not address adding services provided by government to existing properties. They just increase the number of inhabitants in the same area.

Also much of Portland has a much better and less expensive public transportation system than the SF Bay Area does.

My preference was UUCP for USENET via 1200 baud modem circa 1983.

That likely depends on what trade agreements exist between your country and the US. The dominoes could fall quite quickly.

Fix the courts. Arbitration is not a a fair fix. At least if a case has merit and the aggrieved can find an attorney who will take the case on contingency. Attorneys don't take contingency cases that they don't think they can win. That is the best check against frivolous cases.

This is common. With Elder Care, if you did not agree to a Binding Arbitration agreement that usually also included a non-disclosure agreement that you would never disclose why you were seeking restitution via the only vehicle you contractually agreed too... arbitration you would not be accepted for any care options.

Correct. If you waive "due process" via binding arbitration you also lose the ability to sue for malpractice. Do not be stupid do not sign contracts that require binding arbitration particularly if they also require non-disclosure of why you invoked arbitration as your only option BECAUSE you agreed to it in the contract you signed.

An area that Mandatory Binding Arbitration must be eliminated is elder care. It recently took our family a considerable amount of effort to find a good care either in home or a facility that did not REQUIRE binding arbitration clause plus an NDA for family member who now needs 7/24 care.

This industry hires inexpensive and untrained labor that regularly makes mistakes that injure customers.

The "customers" in many cases have dementia or cognition issues.

Mandatory Binding Arbitration is almost always bad for customers. The game board is tilted against them. Arbitrators must be agreed to by both parties, but companies are the primary repeat customers of arbitrators and will NOT select arbitrators that don't usually and regularly find for them.

Binding Arbitration as currently used should be eliminated as an option in all contracts. It should always exist as an option of the parties, but not be binding at the initiation of any service.

Binding Arbitration is a tool of companies to allow them to NOT be accountable to their customers AND prevent that lack of accountability to made public.

A mandatory binding arbitration clause in any contract presented to you should always be a warning flag that the other side does not intend to be accountable.

Never enter into such contracts if you can avoid them.

We've seen this story before. It's as old as cross-platform software development tools.

A platform vendor buys and kills closed source code that makes it faster and easier to make applications across platforms including those the new owner does not control, so the closed source product is killed and all the developers who used it now have to re-write all the their apps costing them significant resources and money.

Can anyone really wonder why developers do not like to buy closed code that acts as glue between platforms and their applications?

The only time it's smart to do is if it lets you reach the market faster than others, and then only if that buys you time to get off the cross-platform tool before it lags and degrades in the face of platform updates the tool vendor does not control or dies.

The difference is that in this case Facebook controls the complete platform including access to the customers that your startup requires to survive and prosper.

Paypal had independent access to markets. It just grew fastest via eBay because it solved a problem that eBay initially could not.

Clone PC makers had independent BIOS and MS-DOS so IBM could not snuff them. It finally lost when it tried to move PC users to the PS/2 platform and customers would not follow.

Microsoft negotiated and blocked exclusive licensing and control by IBM of MS-DOS before the first IBM PC shipped.

So yes, you can succeed if you have a way out of the inherent trap of being just another sharecropper. And to do that you better have negotiated a much better deal where you have options that cannot be easily blocked that are not being offered to everyone else. But you cannot expect to win much if you accept the publicly offered terms.

Facebook's terms of use for their platform allow them to cut you off from "your passionate users" at Facebook's whim.

Yes, you too can be the next startup to place your complete destiny in the hands of an organization that owns the walled garden you are sharecropping, that can watch your every monetizing success, copy it without penalty at any time of their choosing and then cut you out going forward.

You better have completed your "liquidity event" before that happens.

This is just an expanded version of the press release for Dan Lyon's book. That being said there are plenty of startups that are like this. Thankfully, most are not.

If every DC Starbucks is serving WiFi via a single network vendor like AT&T etc. then the surveillance is already in place. Particularly, if only metadata is being collected.

A specialized device is not really needed. Just a Mitm position between the stores and the Internet.

Alas, even the omen.com domain is for sale. See: http://www.omen.com

Chuck Forsberg was the kind of optimizing engineer we just do not see much anymore.

The current owners are really screwed at least in California. They MUST install whatever fix VW provides for their current diesel or they will be illegal and unregistered in California. So there will be no choice in accepting VW's fix not matter the loss of performance or fuel economy. And other states will likely do the same.

Perhaps, but the organization that is providing the work is still likely to want to make, sell and profit from as much crap as it can along with all the other crap makers.

"Unbreakable" worked for Oracle Corp, so why not "Secure Channels?" ;-)

The Dericam H5xxW series are 720p cameras with built-in ftp and web servers. They cost about $75. You can also hack them. There is no cloud service. And you can turn off the PnP access.

However, if all you want is an excellent "out-of-box" experience, you really won't "own" any IoT device you can currently purchase. They are all remotely managed.

You can't trust what you cannot audit. Open Source is auditable software. You can hire non-vested 3rd parties to validate it.